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Yes yes, I too am very sad and annoyed that Trump is not dead, I got all breathlessly excited and queued up "Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead" to be ready for a great announcement, and then I didn't even get to play it. It's a huge bummer.
However, step two of this huge bummer is NOT "Oh no and now his fandom will be EVEN MORE ANNOYING, we have basically already lost :((((" That is the devil speaking. Step two is to say "Ah heck, his fandom is going to be even more annoying, better FUCKING VOTE AND MAKE SURE EVERYONE I KNOW ALSO VOTES" Stop your worthless defeatism, stop your stupid pessimism, stop trying to GIVE UP AND SURRENDER just cause one weird thing happened.
GO VOTE, IDIOTS
I doubt Trump's going to get any sympathy votes because:
He's a sociopath and will remind everyone of that immediately.
MAGA Republicans are currently on Twitter blaming Democrats and trying to stoke more violence, meanwhile Democrats are offering their sympathies, and Independents will see the difference.
Getting hit by a piece of teleprompter glass kind of kills the whole "badass" image lmao
The "sympathy vote" after an assassination attempt just isn't a thing. Didn't work for Teddy Roosevelt, Gerald Ford, or George Wallace. And if Teddy Roosevelt - who actually was shot - can't win an election on it, Trump really can't.
America is so polarized that most people have basically already decided, and the ones that haven't are the ones most likely to be put off by the calls for violence and hostility.
this took me out 😭😭
Now we need to get even more people out to vote for biden because the most recent thing that happened to trump is absolutely going to radicalize right-wingers and some people who were on the fence, regardless of what the outcome is. I'm so terrified.
sadly we live in age of political violence, just off the top of my head someone shooting up the Congressional Republican baseball team and nearly killing Steve Scalise in 2017, the guy who mailed pipe bombs to Obama, Biden, Hillary Clinton and George Soros in 2018, the plot to kidnap Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer in 2020, the guy who nearly beat Paul Pelosi to death with a hammer when he tried to kidnap Nancy Pelosi in 2022, and the attempt to stab Republican Congressman and candidate for governor Lee Zeldin on stage at a rally also in 2022.
So sadly our political system has a cancer of violence, we don't know why right now this person took a shot at Trump, if it was political or someone wanted to be famous or he thought Trump was an alien we do not know why.
whatever the reason I don't think it'll change the race very much, I do worry what Trump will say, Republican Congressmen have already said wild and insane things about this being Biden's orders, so thats unlikely to make our problem of political violence better.
oh and it was, yet again, an AR-15 style weapon, so you know, I guess thoughts and prayers?
I think it should also be said that when really bad events happen like assassination attempts usually there's a rally behind the flag effect increasing the incumbent's popularity and well who's been in the white house the last 4 years?
Personally I think immediately panicking that your party is going to lose an election because the opposing candidate (who was convicted of 34 felonies and found liable for rape and incited an attempted coup against the federal government among other atrocities) experienced an attempted assassination is objectively pathetic behavior and democrats at large need to stop being so pathetic
It also should be said every incumbent US president in the last century that both ran for reelection and didn't have a severely shit economy has won reelection. Every. Single. One.
That can't be said for every governing party though with losses of Stevenson to Eisenhower or Nixon to Kennedy or Humphrey to Nixon or Gore to Bush Jr or Clinton to Trump.
Right now Biden is the best shot to beat Trump simply because of incumbency advantage. There simply is no severely shit economy like the Great Depression that killed Hoover or Stagflation that killed Carter or 90s recession that killed Bush Senior or COVID recession that killed Trump that could even vaguely justify replacing Biden (though severely bad economies kill non-incumbents even worse).
Plain and simple most US presidential elections are just general approval/disapproval votes of the governing party with exceptions mainly being for incredibly popular challengers challenging a non-incumbent. With most Democrats doing unusually well in polls since Dobbs and most times performing in elections over 5 percentage points better that the polls and 10 points over the previous elections pretending Biden being a couple points down in the polls will kill him in a way it just hasn't for any other Democrat is insane.
It gets even less logical if we factor in Democrats spending way more than Republicans on this election. 90% of the time money wins and when it loses it's almost always to incredibly well run grassroots campaigns which Trump's just isn't. Or the fact the more contested primaries a candidate has the more likely they are to lose and well...
Which one looks more contested?
If you want to look at swing state results:
That's an average of 10 points less for Trump vs Biden as well as over 10 points more for the largest Trump challenger vs largest Biden challenger.
So please how in the world is Biden having an off debate (which very few undecided but will vote voters watch) is justification to kill all of the incumbency, money, and lack of primary challenger advantage Democrats have worked so hard to accrue this election season? Lichtman who's predicted all but one of the previous 10 elections has already came out saying pulling Biden will wreck Democrats chances of beating Trump. Biden isn't perfect but he's the best shot at defeating Trump that we have in November so please can it with the mental decline argument. If that was enough to kill Biden, it would have killed Trump too.
Can you explain something to me? Sorry this is so random but I honestly don’t trust anyone else’s answer lmao… but why is watermelon associated with the propal movement? I see people using the emoji and tagging things with it all the time as a way to be “sneaky” about it (not sneaky when everybody knows what it means…) but I don’t understand where it came from or WHY they use it, and I don’t know who else to ask bc I just don’t trust that people would give me a genuine answer.
I don’t know for sure if this is the right answer, all i know about it is that i started seeing it after a creator on tiktok made a filter/game that donated money to some charity (not sure which one) for palestine when used, and it had watermelons in it. I’m assuming it was used before that, but I haven’t seen anyone actually talking about the origins of why they use watermelons as a stand in for palestine.
God Bless people who dress wild and go out in public. I love seeing a woman in all pink with pink hair and pink nails, with a tiny dog in a pink outfit in her bag. Or a massively goth dude covered in piercings sporting a giant green mohawk. Cosplayers. SCA reenactors. Ren Faire people. There’s nothing I love more than a pair of handsome young men walking around in Revolutionary War outfits. Just please keep dressing wild and freaky. You bring color to life, and it never fails to put a big smile on my face.
As far as I know Shinigami eyes is only a web browser add-on. I've never got it to work on the app but if you open it the site thru Firefox it works and highlights trans-friendly blogs too. The only sidenote is I think your phone has to be Android for it to work and I believe only Firefox allows web add-ons on its mobile version. Chrome definitely doesn't and since most other web browsers work on its interface Chromium I would assume it applies to them too since Chromium's ban on most ad-blockers soon (June I think) seems like it will apply to all of them.
Also necessary Firefox propaganda: it has more privacy, ad-blockers, good add-ons that even work on mobile, it's nonprofit, has a free password manager, transfers all your bookmarks from other inferior web browsers, allows you to sync devices, not associated with Google or Chromium, using it helps destroy Google's strangle hold on the web search market (Google has ~66% of it while Firefox has ~3%), seems to like its users, is available in all the app stores (that I know of) and more. Use it!
oh noooo that antisemitism being detached from political leaning post is from a radfem 😭
whoops, you're right, thanks for letting me know 👍
on another note does the shinigami eyes thingie work on mobile? if I remember right it highlights terfs, it would make it a lot easier to avoid their shit.
I've done a reverse image search and looked at this Twitter account and can't find this tweet at all. Then when I tried to search this account low and behold:
This account has been pasting fake info since before Aaron Bushnell.
Also:
So yeah this is just a rage bait disinformation Twitter account. The chances it's somehow right are slim to none.
Additionally, the OP Tumblr account posts a lot of stuff (like a third of their posts) from non-reputable sources as well as tweets without dates so that's not helping either.
The only thing slightly accurate from this tweet is this:
From:
Also, backed up from this in Times of Israel:
Source:
It's Rita. We're done here for now
I'm sure everyone's heard by now that something's happened at least so I'll try keep it short [lie]. This post is a rough explanation and not a defense, if mutuals want to add evidence of what I claim then please do so, I will have a note to friends at the end, feel free to skip to that 🧡🤎
I got terminated on predstrogen due to mass false reports about sexually explicit content, I had evidence of these mass false reports, and when I asked support for help they stated "As you know, you posted sexually explicit content and additionally harrassed people"
My issue isn't with the account termination, it's the double standard around it
I've had multiple accounts. The first (madhopz) was terminated for content on sideblogs when I was doing sex work and I know I won't get it back. The second (sadhopz) was targetted by lolcow forums, and took half a year to get back, only once I humiliated myself to support by screenshotting and documenting what they were saying about me and sharing images of me. The third (predstrogen) I mentioned and I'll get back to, but I was never emailed to explain why the fourth (Avewy/Predesterone) was terminated. All we know is that it was right after the CEO got upset with me, I broke no rules and said no one should attack anyone, I posted no explicit content, none.
A man twice my age and worth $400,000,000 threatened to call the cops on a trans woman online, and then deleted me when I mentioned this
To add insult to injury, he refused to call me "she" the entire time, referring to me as "they" and backpedalling to vaguely refer to me as The Account. I'm a fucking person, and you know that by threatening to pin the cops on me. Eventually even slipping and calling me "it" before respecting the womanhood of the person he would gladly talk about and "make an exception for"
My complaint to his post was that he says I was banned for harrassment, which is a lie. I was banned for mass false reports of sexual content, despite having been told by staff directly a month prior that my blog does not break that rule, and have had people admit to collaborating on reports. But my biggest issue is that even if I was banned for harrassment, then what did they do about my own harrassment?
They did fuck all and told me my stalkers should not be removed from Tumblr
After banning me without a reason, I immediately got an email back about harrassment and stalking that I sent a support ticket about in December. They banned me twice before looking into this, and their conclusion was "we won't do a thing". These are people who have been on my ass all of last fucking year calling me a rapist and a pedophile, and they ignored it. Does that sound like a man who cares about harrassment on his site, or only when it happens to him?
After the ban on Predstrogen and I moved to Avewy, they were everywhere. Inbox messages claiming I was sending asks to children threatening to rape them, anonymous people stating they're our victim and are scared to speak out about what I did to them. It all only happened now. They've turned a blind eye and given these people a win. I saved it all in an #archive tag as proof if I was ever asked or got through to support, but that didn't happen when i was terminated without warning or reason
When Matt deleted me himself, he deleted everything I posted and saved as evidence for my situation. Anonymous asks slandering me, reblogs of people organising to get rid of me, my own documentation of what staff did, all of it was deleted with @avewy/@predesterone.
I don't want to be on this site anymore, I was happy all day today because I feel free without it. But I miss my accounts, because of all the memories with them. I don't want to use them, but I want @madhopz, @predstrogen, and @predesterone back so that all the times ive had with friends, lovers and strangers arent completely eradicated. Every single thing uploaded to Predstrogen is gone and marked mature now, even my face and identity, because this was a sexual content ban and not harrassment as they say. They found another reason after the fact
Give me my identity and my memories back
To all my friends and mutuals, thank you. Even people I've had falling-outs with have been nothing but kind and I want everyone to know I appreciate it. I saw every ask before deletion, I see how many people are on Discord. I can't keep up, but knowing you reached out at all means the world to me
I was happier today off this site than I have been in months. I'm not driving myself to breakdowns anymore by being on here, my mental and emotional state has been in ruins. Maybe I'll come back on this account, but for now I'm leaving it blank and still and moving on.
This post is incredibly meandering and too long, but I'm not trying to defend myself or document everything, I'm trying to make sure I say something to people I care for instead of disappearing, you deserve it. I'm doing well, please find me elsewhere.
My Twitter is mAD_h0PZ
My Cohost is Predstrogen
My BlueSky is predstrogen.bsky.social
My discord is Avewy, and my server is Public
My steam is mAD_hOPZ
Goodnight, thank you 🧡🤎
this is based off a post by @absentlyabbie It got me through last years holidays, and i hope it helps you too.
Hold on.
It’s here !! The guide for two-legged people who don’t know how to draw wheelchairs !!! 7 pages of infodump ! Disclaimer : I don’t know everything, I have one (1) experience of wheelchair user who used both bad and good chairs, and I share what I learned.
Image description :
1) Calvin in his wheelchair saying “yo” under a huge title “how to draw manual wheelchairs properly by Calvin Arium, a wheelchair user comic artist”.
2) A character says “my character self propels in a chair that was outdated in 1970 lol” Calvin says “so it looks like you two legged people don’t know the difference between an hospital chair and a chair made to be independant” an arrow point the crapppy chair, saying “we never want to see this again”
a bubble says “the hospital chair is extremely unpractical, tough considering it’s cheaper than a good custom chair a lot of us have only this”
3) a character hurt himself trying to reach the wheels of the hospital chair. Several arrows point why the chair is unpractical : “high backrest restrain shoulders movement” “huge armrest restrains wheel access” “separated footrest : amovible, cheap, bulky” “x structure, foldable but heavy” “huge front casters for stability” “heavy wheels”
4) Several arrows point an active wheelchair (the KSL by Küshall) : “usually no armrest” “a low backrest allow more movement” “light, design, ferning expersive” “special cushion to avoind injuries” “knee angle is usually 90°” “one single piece of frame, sometimes entirely welded” “weight : from 4 to 10kg” “often rigid” “center of the wheel is the center of gravity” “higher quality wheels : less spikes”
5) A hand grab different parts of the wheel, pushing harder in the second half. Bubbles says “some have gloves, some don’t. The hand must grab the biggest area possible. Less movement = more energy. This is a common but not only way to push.Calvin is on his back wheels, rolling on grass and dirt bubble says “popping a wheelie is when a wheelchair user rolls on their back wheels to roll on every complicated surface.
6) several drawings illustrate the folding frame, the ergonomic but rigid and expensive backrest, the separated footrest (only for folding frame), the handles, the folding handles, athe amovibles handles, or no handles, the cool fancy loopwheels, the pretty custom colors
7) More Features ! The fancy rigid-foldable frame, the anti tippers (sometimes used by beginners), the motorization (wheels, smart drive) when propelling yourself is difficult Calvin says “and now vroom vroom motherfuckers”
I love that the internet saw people comparing women and other alienated groups of people and went, “they’re dating,” and, “they support each other.” We’re improving as a society.
If you're reading this, you've won The Game. It's over, it's done, and you can breathe. Now any time you see posts telling you that you lost The Game, you can smile, shake your head, and feel sorry for all of those OTHER people who are still playing The Game, while being glad that you yourself are free.
"But that's not how The Game works-"
If someone can arbitrarily decide that everyone on Earth is playing The Game, someone else can arbitrarily decide there's a way to win.
Congratulations on your win!! Celebrate with a treat of your choice.
happy new year everyone!! <3
I wish lesbians were as easy to find in real life as they are on tumblr